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I G. W. BAUMHOFP. Y TURN TABLE FOR TRANSFERRING STREET CARS FROM ONE TRACK TO ANOTHER.

Patente n. FEIERS. mum, Washington. In;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. BAUMHOFF, or srr. LOUIS, MISSOURI, Assrenon or TWO-THIRDS- TO JOHN H. MAXON AND JOSEPH o. LLEWELLYN, BOTH or SAME PLACE.

TURN-TABLE FOR TRANSFERBING STREET-CARS FROM O NE TRACK TO ANOTHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,950, dated July 15, 1884.

' Application filed September 5, 1883: (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BAUMHOFF, of the city of St. Louis,in the State of Mis-' souri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Turn-Tables for Transferring Street-Oars from One Track to Another, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speci- [O fication, and in whic11 Y Figure-l is atop View. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are side elevations of the skids or mounting-blocks;

and Fig. 5 is a section ofsame, taken on line 5, Fig. 4. Fig. 6is avertical section taken on line 6 6, Fig. 1, illustrating amanner of securing the friction-rollers to the table.

The object of myinvention is to furnish a cartrack with a portable platform,'which provides a convenient means for transferring street-cars from one track to another in times of blockades, &c.; and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a suitable base or platform, to which is secured a track, B, preferably semicircular, as shown in Fig. 1, and a track, O, which is preferably circular, as shown in same figure; The base I pre-.

fer to makein three parts, and to pivot the parts together by hinges A, as shown. Instead of being made in three parts,it may be made in two, or may be made in more than three, or again may be made in the form of a skeleton,thus dispensing with considerable material and weight. The form or shape of the base may thus be widely varied, and it may be made of any suitable material. The tracks should also be in corresponding sections, to allow the base to be folded during transportation, and to allow one side to be turned up, thus uncovering one of the main tracks and permitting cars to pass thereon Without removing the apparatus.

D represents aturn-table pivoted to the base at D, and supported by frictionrollcrs D",bearing on the tracks B O. The rollers may be secured to the table byan y suitable means. I have shown them secured by straps D', Fig. 6, which have upturned ends, between which the rollers are journaled, the straps being secured to the table. I have shown the table pivoted to the base by means of a post, I. (See Fig. 2.)

Instead of the tracks being secured to the base and the rollers to the table, theycould be changed about vice versa, if desired. 5 5 J represents skids or mounting-blocks,which would be placed on the c'ar-tracks, as shown, to assist in getting the cars onto and off from the table. Their upper edges are so formed that the wheels of the car will not be liable to slip off a suitable arm may be employed to form a connection between the table and the point of pivot or the post I, thus increasing the radius of its circle.

- Another advantage of making the base in sections is that part of it can be turned up or re moved, allowing cars to pass on one of the tracks without removing thewhole apparatus.

1 will now describe fully the function of the apparatus. LetU and V represent two parallel So street-car tracks, upon one of which the cars travel in one direction, and upon the other of which they return. Now, supposing the cars to be traveling in the direction shown by the feathered arrow, Fig. l, and the tracks ahead 8 5 become blockaded, or are undergoingsuch repair that the cars cannot pass, and it is desired to returnthexmwhich necessitates their being transferred to the other track. To accomplish this my portable apparatus is brought from the car-stables or other place of storage and laid across the car-tracks, as shown, andthe skid-s put in place, as described. The first car is which it came, as shown by the non-feathered arrow. The table is then turned back to receive another car, and thus the operation goes on until the obstruction is removed from the track,when my apparatus is taken away and stored in a suitable place to await further use.

I claim as my invention 1. A car-transferring platform made in sections, one of the sections adapted to be raised to permit a car to pass without removing the platform.

2. A car-transferring platform consisting of parts hinged together in line with the cartracks, one part foldingup upon the other part to permit a car to pass on one track without removing the platform.

3. The combination, with the portable base prm'ided with tracks, of the turn-table pi voted to the base, andhav'ing friction-rollers traveling on the tracks.

GEORGE \V. BAUMHOFF.

In presence of Gno. H. ]{NIGIIT, Enw. E. ISRAEL. 

